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Done ! Ordered both the ATH-M50 and the Sennheiser HD600. ...




MitchC,

I've had the HD 600's for over a decade. I wrote a post last night intending to post this morning. This morning I find you pulled the trigger!

My guess is that you're going to love the HD 600's!

Here's a copy / paste of some stuff that you might still find informative or interesting.


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A few years after I got the HD 600's, I got the HD 280's as monitors for vocals (I like the flip-able ear cups) and for their excellent sound isolation when tracking in a live instrument setting. I bought them for that specific application.

IMO, they sound nothing like the HD600's. NOTHING.

I think the HD 280's are fair on comfort; it's never been a problem because they're not worn that long (application).

IMO, they feel nothing like the HD 600's. NOTHING.

My HD 600's came with a 1/4" phone plug that snaps apart to reveal a mini-plug. (If you don't read the manual you wouldn't know; I know 2 other owners (for years) who were surprised when I told them this.)

I no longer consider this an asset, though.

After all my use (see my 2010 post - I'm not exaggerating about the number of hours) I didn't always get positive contact with the hidden gold connector. So I replaced the cable. Sennheiser offers either the old cable or the HD 650 cable, which terminates only in a 1/4" phone plug. That cable is significantly heavier.

I have no idea if currently shipped HD 600's come with the old style sleeved connector. If they do, I would never use the mini-plug. (It took many years for mine to exhibit the intermittent contact.)


By a large margin, the HD 600's are the most used headphones of my lifetime (of dozens).


I posted about the HD 600's in this 2010 thread; it has some additional info.

http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=299403&an=0&page=0#Post299403

Some of the links are a no go for headroom (headphone.com); the url's have changed.

Today I visited headroom.com (or headphone.com) and they now don't list the HD600 (only the HD650) and the HD800 (which they still feel are the best headphones in the world.)

So I visited Sennheiser USA. The still list the HD600 as a current product (call the HD600 "the mastering engineers headphone of choice", and (laughing) have a page about the HD700 to be introduced at CES 2012.

HTH.

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